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Mount Harriet National Park
In which of the State/Union Territory does Mount Harriet National Park is situated?
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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B |
Tamil Nadu
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C |
Lakshwadeep Islands
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D |
Kerala
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Explanation :
- Mount Harriet National Park is a national park located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory of India.
- The park, established in 1969, covers about 4.62 km2.
- Mount Harriet (383 metres ), which is part of the park, is the third-highest peak in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago next to Saddle Peak (732 metres (2,402 ft)) in North Andaman and Mount Thullier (568 metres (1,864 ft)) in Great Nicobar.
- The park is named in commemoration of Harriet C. Tytler, the second wife of Robert Christopher Tytler, a British army officer, an administrator, naturalist and photographer, who were appointed Superintendent of the Convict Settlement at Port Blair in the Andamans from April 1862 to February 1864.
- The park's well-known faunal species are Andaman wild pigs (an endangered species), saltwater crocodiles, turtles and robber crabs. The park is also a butterfly hotspot.
- The park has evergreen primary forests, and at Chiriyatapu the forest type is mixed deciduous, a combination of primary and secondary forests.
- The three types of forests are categorized as tropical evergreen, hilltop tropical evergreen and littoral.
- The tribal community living in the tropical forest of the park is the Negrito people, who are hunter-gatherers.
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